Minnesota § 386.03 - RECEPTION INDEX
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§ 386.03. RECEPTION INDEX
Every county recorder shall keep an index, to be denominated as a grantor's and grantee's reception index, which shall contain the following information: date of reception, year, month, day, hour and minute, grantor and grantee, where situated, to whom delivered after recording, fees received, instrument number, and kind of instrument.
The recorder shall enter in the index, in the order and manner aforesaid, as soon as the same are received, all deeds and other instruments authorized by law to be recorded. The reception index shall be maintained in alphabetical order, and every entry made therein shall be made in the reception index under the grantor's surname, and under the grantee's surname, and all such entries shall appear therein consecutively and in the order as to time in which the instruments were received. The recorder shall make an entry in the record immediately for each instrument recorded specifying the time of the day, month, and year when the same was recorded.
History:
(875) RL s 533; 1907 c 442 s 1; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1986 c 444; 2005 c 4 s 73; 2008 c 238 art 3 s 6
Official Publication of the State of Minnesota
Revisor of Statutes
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Section 386.03 ("RECEPTION INDEX") is part of the Minnesota Statutes, the codified statutory law of Minnesota. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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